?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Acting%2C+Intending%2C+and+Artificial+Intelligence&rft.creator=Hauser%2C+L&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Language&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Mind&rft.description=Hauser+considers+John+Searle's+attempt+to+distinguish+acts+from+movements.+On+Searle's+account%2C+the+difference+between+me+raising+my+arm+and+my+arm's+just+going+up+(e.g.%2C+if+you+forcibly+raise+it)%2C+is+the+causal+involvement+of+my+intention+to+raise+my+arm+in+the+former%2C+but+not+the+latter%2C+case.+Yet%2C+we+distinguish+a+similar+difference+between+a+robot's+raising+its+arm+and+its+robot+arm+just+going+up+(e.g.%2C+if+you+manually+raise+it).+Either+robots+are+rightly+credited+with+intentions+or+it's+not+intention+that+distinguishes+action+from+mere+movement.+In+either+case+acts+are+attributable+to+robots.+Since+the+truth+of+such+attributions+depends+not+on+the+speaker's+%22intentional+stance%22+but+on+%22intrinsic%22+features+of+the+things+they+are+not+merely+figurative+%22as+if%22+attributions.++Gunderson+allows+that+internally+propelled+programmed+devices+(Hauser+Robots)+do+act+but+denies+that+they+have+the+mental+properties+such+acts+seem+to+indicate.+Rather%2C+given+our+intuitive+conviction+that+these+machines+lack+consciousness%2C+such+performances+evidence+the+dementalizability+of+acts.Hauser+replies+that+the+performances+in+question+provide+prima+facie+warrant+for+attributions+of+mental+properties+that+considerations+of+consciousness+are+insufficient+to+override.&rft.date=1994&rft.type=Journal+(Paginated)&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F239%2F1%2F199802001.html&rft.identifier=++Hauser%2C+L++(1994)+Acting%2C+Intending%2C+and+Artificial+Intelligence.++%5BJournal+(Paginated)%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F239%2F